Full screen flash?

Could you, as in the kongregate powers that be, possibly enable flash full screen?

Although it does tend to go slow and only allows mouse input it is nice to see games full screen occasionally. There seems to have been some effort put into stopping it being abused, so it is reasonably safe. The newer flash plugin has some more options that can help to keep speed up so it should get even better shortly.

“allowFullScreen” just needs to be set to “true” on flash embeds

A game that would work full screen if you let it and clicked the full screen button :)

I can see both sides of this – yes, it would be nice to play some full screen, but at the same time that would remove the chat, which is a pretty integral part of Kongregate. Plus, there might be some issues guaranteeing that advertising is viewed if people are watching full screen. Though I ought to just let an official Kong employee answer…

Full screen may be nice in some cases but it would cause some headaches, particularly performance issues. If at all possible, flash games should always be played at 100% of their size (mostly if they have any bitmap content). Scaling up the games will cause them to slow down, as well as likely distort the rendering. This is equal to defacement of artistic property in the eyes of some developers, since you can turn their nice looking game into something that looks terrible by playing it in a manner it was not designed to be played. Out of respect for developers and a desire not to introduce more complications, full screen should likely be avoided except possibly in a few specific cases.

I deleted it. Games are not meant to be displayed that way and it is too likely to cause problems. Its not a supported feature so the last thing we need is people thinking they should do something like that. Please don’t encourage others to try it.

I love flash games, but forcing them into a tiny fixed-pixel-size window seems obscene to me. I mean the whole thing about Flash is its supposed to be vector-based so it can scale to your screensize, but flash game portals like kongregate break that. I have a widescreen LCD, the 700 pixel width on Kongregate is so tiny that I have to seriously squint.

I really don’t understand why so many websites force their sites to fit in a fixed pixel width. That was considered bad web design back when I made websites, whyever did it get popular? I have a widescreen, why can’t I use it?

I love flash games, but forcing them into a tiny fixed-pixel-size window seems obscene to me. I mean the whole thing about Flash is its supposed to be vector-based so it can scale to your screensize, but flash game portals like kongregate break that. I have a widescreen LCD, the 700 pixel width on Kongregate is so tiny that I have to seriously squint.

I really don’t understand why so many websites force their sites to fit in a fixed pixel width. That was considered bad web design back when I made websites, whyever did it get popular? I have a widescreen, why can’t I use it?

Flash does not use just vector formats. In fact, the best games often use a lot of bitmaps. Kongregate does not “break” anything in regard to Flash. Developers design the games to be played at a specific resolution most of the time, allowing resolution change would actually be “breaking” it in many cases; unless the game was designed to support the change.

And no, the ‘whole thing about Flash’ is not to scale to your screen. You sound like you were involved in this a very long time ago when Flash first came up and the buzz was about ‘vector scalability’. While it is one of it’s features, that’s somewhat archaic thinking as far as Flash’s purpose and design of it’s content goes.

Flash now supports hardware scaling, but with only limited keyboard input, which causes problems for most games. We’ve push for better support and got a little more, but Adobe is still holding back for security reasons.

I think that’s a good idea.I’d like an option to either get rid of the frame or have a big (window size) frame.
Some games are not centred …
even if you try reloading the page (or it isn’t the right proportion). Because of that some become completely un-playable.

And some games don’t zoom. Not only Shockwave games but also Flash, but then I expect it only gets bigger (maxed full screen) without a frame… or doesn’t change all.

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